A SMILE OR TWO
A Smile or Two Naturalized An alien wanted to be naturalized and was required to fill out a blank. The first three lines of the blank had the following questions: "Name? Born? Business?" He...
...Hubby (apologetically) — Why, I didn't mean to do it...
...Born—Yes...
...You see, he struck another match, as it were...
...Up and Doing Not all city folks are as ignorant of the farmer's surroundings as the farmers sometimes suppose...
...The late Bishop Wilmer of Alabama pointed out the memorial to a friend, who read the words and then asked: "But he married again, didn't he...
...He answered: "Name—Michael Levinsky...
...What on earth did you do that for...
...Well, young man," said the farmer to his city boarder, who was up early looking around, "been out to hear the haycock crow, I suppose," and the sly old chap winked at his hired man...
...No," said he, suavely, "I've merely been out tying a knot in a cord of wood...
...Will they bite easily" asked another friend...
...A man has to hide behind a tree to bait a hook...
...said Mr...
...Struck Another Match On the death of his first wife, a literary celebrity of Massachusetts erected an elaborate memorial to her on which was inscribed the sentiment, "The light of my life has gone out...
...Absent-minded Chauffeur Wife—Now see what you've gone an' done—dumped out all my fire when I've got a big baking to do...
...Will they...
...Yes," replied the bishop, "he did...
...The city man smiled...
...Business—Rotten...
...Wharry...
...Wharry...
...Thousands of 'em," replied Mr...
...This was evidenced by an incident in the stay of a young New Yorker on a New England farm...
...Successful Farming...
...Cabman (tentatively)—Are yeh goin' to pay by th' mile, or by th' hour?— New York Herald...
...Why they're absolutely vicious...
...Diplomacy Moike—Pat, phwat is diplomacy...
...asked one friend...
...Pat—Diplomacy is when yez wants to call me a liar, but does it over the telephone.—Successful Farming...
...Pathfinder...
...Are there any trout out there...
...Exciting Fishing A man was telling some friends about a proposed fishing trip to a lake in Colorado which he had in contemplation...
...Businesslike Cabby Citizen—How long will it take you to drive to Park Place...
...I was thinking about automobiles and when I went to shake the stove I cranked the thing round three or four times before I remembered it was the stove.—Ex...
Vol. 5 • April 1913 • No. 17
